My wife and I were driving home from the Adirondacks on the NY Thruway yesterday and saw a horrific accident as it happened, about 50 feet in front of our car! I saw the car drifting to the right, and thought, "oh, he'll steer back", but car just continued to the right, hit the guiderail at the end, crushed the rail all the way to the concrete barriers that are ironically there to protect the toll apparatus! The driver must of fallen asleep at the wheel, or "died suddenly". Debris flew out into the road, and I was glad that we were in the left lane, because a large piece of the guiderail flew into the right lane. We stopped just ahead, called 911, and I started to go back to help, when another vehicle stopped, where a passenger was an EMT. He ran back to the scene. I saw many people at the scene, and decided I wouldn't be any help. We left, and as we left, the car burst into flames! Based on the severity of the crash (we could see that the front of the car was TOTALLY crushed in), we wondered if the passenger(s) could be extracted before the flames! It was the worst car accident I have ever seen happen!

Now here is where it get's weird. I searched online yesterday and couldn't find a news item about it. I still couldn't today, but found where someone mentioned it on Reddit. So the question is, are details being withheld for a reason? (or am I just too conspiracy-minded :) ) I can't recall anything about the vehicle other than it was a car.